Based on first reports, the New England Patriots spent more than $250 million in total contractual value on the first two days of the NFL’s legal tampering period alone: they signed eight outside players and also kept two of their in-house free agents in the fold. As always, however, the initially reported numbers show only a fragment of the picture and need more details to be properly assessed.
Those details, at least when it comes to another one of the deals signed by the Patriots early during the legal tampering window on Monday, have now been reported by Albert Breer of Spots Illustrated: Nelson Agholor had reportedly agreed to a two-year, $26 million pact with New England, but as the more thorough breakdown shows, the actual impact on the team’s books is a bit smaller than that.